1815
June-September Ultraroyalist
forces institute a 'White Terror'
8 July King Louis XVIII enters Paris
14-21 August The ultraroyalists
sweep to victory in elections
20 November The treaty of Paris
returns France to pre-1790 frontiers
1816
September Louis dissolves the Chamber of
Deputies 8 December
Marshal Ney is executed for having
rallied to Napoleon
1819
November The moderate Decazes forms a new
government
1820
13 February Duc de Berry, Louis XVIII's nephew,
is assassinated by a Bonapartist
1821
5 May Napoleon dies on St Helena
1823
April France intervenes in Spain to restore Ferdinand
VII, who had been faced with liberal revolt
1824
February-March The Right wins elections
16 September Louis XVIII dies
1825
29 May Charles X crowned at Rheims
1827
April The Dey of Algiers strikes the French consul
with a flywhisk. The French blockade Algeria